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nearly all the emails I get at work are these jokes. some of them are funny but others I look at anf think ..........why!!

I delete all the ones that are in aid of anything like pass this on becasue little louise is dying and if we get this email to 8million people the hospital will give her treatment for free....I am sure you have seen the kind of thing I mean.

If I do send any on it is only to friends I think will appreciate it for its cuteness or if it really is funny but I don't do the send to X amount of people. nothing good or bad is going to happen because I did or didn't pass on an email. Usually I will cut and paste and only use the bits I like. even if I do forward the original I always delete the pages of email addresses that precede the joke....they really are no joke!!

Oh my goodness Ron, I hate fw emails too. My sister in law is horrible for this. I never get a real email from her, but she sends at least 3 or 4 forwards a day to me and my husband...to each of our email accounts. Last month, all of my husband's family went out to dinner one night and his sister asked the table as a whole, "Do you all get the emails that I send you because no one ever responds."My husband said (in the middle of Cracker Barrell), "Yes Monica, I get them, thanks for reminding me. I've been meaning to tell you, stop sending me fucking forwards."And of course, his mother gasped and yelled at him for using the F word. And his sister got all pouty. It was a great family get together.

I'll have to keep this in mind as there have been a few I will forward to a blog bud or two...depending....I'm a SAG for goodness sake, we find ALOT of things funny. LOL

We have a friend who, like you, has made it perfectly clear to not send that type of stuff either. He won't open it. That's cool tho. To each his own!But sometimes I get a kick out of a joke.... like a cartoon. The gas ones were funny. The Bushisms I liked and have a whole bunch of things like that stored on my 'puter for a blog I was going to do.

The latest pic going around was the one of a five dollar bill that said on it 'gift certificate for a gallon of gas'. teehee

I have a girlfriend who only got a computer maybe 2 years ago. Her husband has been sick with cancer for 8... yes, 8 years... and has been unable to work and needs morphine/oxygen every day. :((( Because he cannot go out and if his wife is busy taking care of the household or just plain exhausted from his constant care, the only things he has to do, other than his newspaper and music/dvd collection is what people send him on the computer. I've seen just about all the silly, senseless emails that go around and most of the time just hit delete, but he has not and wants them, so I send stuff to him and it keeps him busy.A couple times I forwarded ones with pictures of big boobed girls and stupid captions, or in short shorts riding all the way up, etc. He got a kick out of that.... thanked me for sending him the porn. LOL OH he has NOOOO idea what's available on the Net. LOL

These emails do get tiring and there have been times when I just deleted them before I opened them up. They are almost as annioying as the emails saying people need help or I hit the lottery. They get my dander and irritate me to no end. The emails that I have to forward to half the population of the known world is another pet peeve of mine also.But, the occasional card from a friend or a note to say hello; now that is what I enjoy the most.

Now if you will forward this to at least 137 people in the next 12 seconds you will win the lotto for $7.49 with a chance to have a sinus cavity cleaning.

As much as I hate them, I'm compelled to read them. Some are actually funny. Luckily, my email is never really bombarded with those type of things. I do get TONS of penis enlarger, colon cleaners (EWWW!) and offers to claim ginormous lottery prizes in Africa or some place. THOSE emails really annoy me.

I know you like the squirrel pictures, so I'll keep sending the good ones but will never, ever send you a joke. Promise. :D

I'm sorry, but you know the same guy I do? Apparently because the exact same thing happened to me for the longest time. Until I finally emailed him and said "back off already!"

Now I only get them once in awhile, but not from him. I hate the inspirational ones that say things like "God is here for you today, but won't be tomorrow if you don't send this to 200 other people you love."

That and "maybe you just don't love those people as much as you think or you would have already sent those 10 email forwards to them .."

I get enough guilt trips from my Monster-in-law and even myself. I don't need email to do it for me.

Oh Ron...I have a friend that was emailing me gross pics. You know like auto accidents, terrible ones. A guy cut in half from a auto accident. He was drunk. There was more. I don't even want to write you about that one.

Sweetie, I grew up in a tough neighborhood. There's things we throw out from our minds, things we think are no good. A child should not live like that...I don't want death to be common in my life. I grieve for those close to me that have passed away...and I will grieve for those I don't know too...because they have someone here missing them and that is a sad picture.

I phoned her and told her I don't want to see those things. They are people and shouldn't be on the internet in the first place. She was okay with it. :D

I don't do 'em either.And I probably oughta be more willing, cuz some of the folks who correspond with me--honestly, that's the best they can do, today.

Now, the ones that talk about how G-d's gonna be disappointed and bad things are gonna happen cuz I don't forward them....those just make me sad that folks would actually buy into that garbage, yaknow?

Hey...that joke about the $5.00 bill certificate for GAS...actually WAS funny!!!

Really!

Ya know, I honestly DO see the enjoyment that someone would get out of receiving email jokes and things, such as your friends husband, who is ill and is confind to the home...really I do. And I'm absolutely sure he LOVES getting your wonderful humor, you wild woman, you!

(especially the BIG Boobed girls)

woo-woo!

And this post is not meant to say that I don't feel like I EVER want to get another email joke. It's just that some people who send them (to me, I mean) just go into excess, and it becomes no longer a special TREAT. It just becomes a little tiresome.

Thank you, you wonderful SAG lady! For always adding so much HUMOR to this blog....your presence here, is such a welcome!

Strangely the reaction I had to one of these joke emails last autumn was one of elation. A man I had been involved with briefly in the summer /autumn 2006 had been working away he was sometime working in Basra, when I didn't hear from him for month I was very worried. Then one year and one week after I last saw him I received one of these chain emails. I was so pleased to know he was still alive.

I am WITH you ALL the way!!Some jokes = ok, BOmBaRdMenT = HelL NO!!HittTinG DELETE = priceless!Oh! I have recieved SOME stuff that I liked (I save in a folder for later use, but the rest I delete!)In the beginning I did fwd, now most are deleted.And as for following the "warning" of the letters, I have failed, so I guess it makes me resposible for 99.9999999.87% of the world's, mine and my loved one's problems!Ooops, Sorry people!

It was only a couple of days ago that I finally decided to send ANOTHER EMAIL (Yes another coz some dickheads just don't take a hint!) asking people to PLEASE STOP sending me rubbish forward emails!!!! GRRRRRRR

And you are sooo right!!! No matter how many times I tell people not to... they freaking still do it!!!!

me too..and I dislike the "send this out to 5, 10, 15, etc people within five minutes (including the sender) for good luck, blessings, etc."

I HATE the emails that are sent out that are negative, destructive, political, etc,..that are bull shit. If they had only checked truthorfiction.com they would have NOT sent it out to the 50+ people on their list. Then again...some still would send it out. At least when I nicely tell them to check it out at truthorfiction.com...they remove me from their list. :)

Hey, it's funny that you should mention about having a FEW email accounts, because just recently, I was thinking about doing the same thing. I think with gmail you can add others. I need to check that out.

I actually don't mind getting an occassional joke, but when it's done in excess, that's when I get annoyed.